Holy Thursday (songs of experience) Flashcards
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About
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- old tradition, orphand children parade to St Pauls catherdral.
- angry speakers lets throught a long angry speech against the children’s self satisfied guadrians and against poverty in general.
- what does it say about society, that so many children need to be charity schools.
2
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summary
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- wealthy country, to see miserable children offerend self interested charity
- are the childrens cries meant to be music?
- How could that sound be a joyful song?
- how so many poor kids?
- poor country
- sun never shines for these children, fields never grow food, they must walk thorny paths. live in endless winter
- for when sun shines, chindren cant go hungry and poverty cants exist
3
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Child Poverty and Society failure - Theme
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- Tirade against England, that starves children then feels good for handing out charity.
- children put a performace of joy and gratitude. people who fund are using them,
4
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Society v nature theme
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- nature should supple everything a child needs
- england, unatural.
- artificial structure - industrial revolution
- working against a natural order
5
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‘rich and fruitful land’
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- natural resources.
6
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‘with cold and usurous hand’
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- outburst of rage.
- without human warmth.
- intention of getting something in return
- usury - practise of lending money at a disastrus interest rate.
7
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Meter
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- doesnt use regular meter.
regulat number of beats. four beats per like - hits like a fist.
8
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‘land of poverty!’
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- metaphorically improvished. lacks genuine human kindness
9
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‘and their sun does never shine’
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- prophetic (bliblical) to warn sinners.
- trance
- anaphora.
- ‘and’ misery
- ‘their’ - barren, for just the poor.
10
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‘where-e’er the sun does shine’
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- parallelism
- theres enough for everyone,
- cutting against nature
11
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‘Babe can never hunger there’
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- echoes language and phrasing in the first stanza.
- ## through repetion - putting right whats wrong, or showing how
12
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Allusion
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- holy thursday alludes (unexplained reference to someone/thing outside of the text) to a chirstian holiday
- river
13
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metaphor
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- presenting children’s misery as a metaphorical wilderness, speaker suggests something unnatural.
14
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Form
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- simple form, simplicity, rage.
15
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setting
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- poem of its era
- 19th century, econmic inequality, religion.
